What makes certain programming languages flourish while others languish? What have natural languages to teach us in this?

Love letter to @obsdmd to which I very happily switched to for my personal notes. My primary interest in Obsidian is not even for note taking specifically, it is that Obsidian is around the state of the art of a philosophy of software and what it could be.…

Workers sent from the country to Chinese factories describe enduring beatings and sexual abuse, having their wages taken by the state, and being told that if they try to escape they will be “killed without a trace.”

A few years ago, astronomers uncovered one of the Milky Way's greatest secrets: An enormous, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun's backyard, giving birth to clusters of stars along the spiral ...

Employees offered suggestions to reduce risks of misuse of subnoscription accounts featuring minors. Meta took another approach and says its programs are well monitored.

Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more.

Our special report offers a rare look at life beneath the frozen continent—where penguins, seals, and exotic creatures thrive.

Precise Figma & React components. Packed with best practices, unified prop names & consistent design and code. - functional-ui/functional-ui-kit

Private utility companies are blocking new interregional transmission lines

This document describes requirements for general Japanese layout realized with technologies like CSS, SVG and XSL-FO. The document is mainly based on a standard for Japanese layout, JIS X 4051, however, it also addresses areas which are not covered by JIS…

The demise of Authy desktop has brought about a number of changes, probably the one of which I most appreciate is a mobile app which lets me edit codes: with 2FAS I can edit labels on codes, and I’...

A simple Apple II emulator written for the Tandy Color Computer 3 - dragonbytes/Apple2CoCo

I have been thinking about work lately, as my relationship with it has always felt uncalibrated.

A team of drone enthusiasts have built a drone that uses a camera and Google Maps to provide itself with GPS co-ordinates.

There’s also a Copilot key. Cool?

The FDA approved a new medication for the reduction of allergic reactions that may occur with accidental exposure to one or more foods.

my favorite build system, jinja-preprocessed-eval-preprocessed YAML